About 60 miles from Belize City, there is a perfectly circular 1,000 (305 m) feet across and 400 feet (123 m) wide "Blue Hole." The hole, part of the Lighthouse Reef system, was once an opening to a cave system during the Ice Age - it is now a magnet for extreme divers:

Monday, July 23, 2007

At an amazing 3.571 metres, the Sphinx observatory at Swiss Alps is the highest-altitude construction in Europe. The Sphinx building and observation terrace stand 117 metres above the Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe .

"Once in a great while the water at Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park is still enough to create a surface that mirrors Mount Moran magically......and I was lucky enough to be there when that magic moment happened last weekend. I was standing next to a local who said she had never seen the water so still in the last ten years."

Scott Wade uses the dirty back window of a Mini Cooper as a canvas to create awesome artwork. Features a few famous recreations and all pieces are done the same way sad men write WOW on their vehicles... albeit with better tools and astounding skill.

Atkin's Architecture Group recently won the first prize award for a international design competition with this stunning entry. Set in a spectacular water filled quarry in Songjiang, China, the 400 bed resort hotel is uniquely constructed within the natural elements of the quarry. With underwater public areas and guest rooms.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Created for a series of Halo shorts by would-be Halo director Neill Blomkamp (the first of which we saw at E3), WETA's Warthog is built to correct scale and features the appropriate equipment mounted on back.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Just outside of Seattle, WA my roommate Ed recently took a photo of this . . . thing. We have no idea what animal this is but it was seemingly deaf and/or dumb as Ed got extremely close to it before it slunk away. There are two tufts of hair on it but, otherwise, it was completely bald. Any thoughts? Your help is appreciated!

Questioning the web as collective design tool, this online art project is more than just a game. Through interactivity all the users are working on the same image simultaneously. It could be the first time in history that millions of people are interacting in such a almost physical matter - simply by drawing.

Aseries of 360-degree, high-resolution techno-porn shots depicting various parts of the amazing 27-kilometer underground complex (complete with soothingly industrial ambient background soundscapes—you can almost hear the magnets cooling) should keep your mind off doomsday long enough to remember that the LHC is probably a pretty good idea after all

The dolphin was lying on a humpback whale’s head while it was slowly swimming along. Looking through my camera lens the stunt appeared to be orchestrated by mutual “agreement.” The whale very slowly—and vertically—lifted the dolphin into the air.

Why is it that the Digg Podcast section's comment system looks way nicer? It implements the ability to reply to nested comments (more than one level), but yet still keeps the look that we have been familiar with and have grown to use. Is it just me, or is this how Digg's entire comment system should look/work? (This pic is from the podcast section)